On 1 Feb 2008, at 15:52, Lazy Fox wrote: > I want to know which font should be used in fltk application > if Ｉuse "--enable-xft"? > How can I find it from my Fedora Core 5?
There's no one font that will be "right" for all uses. I don't know what font sets you have installed on your system, or what languages you want to display. For example, if you want to display text that does not use glyphs from the LGC ranges, it is probably best to pick a font tailored to that language group. But if you then do need to display some LGC characters as well, your font may not have them. (Although many of the fonts in the CJK families do have quite good LGC coverage too, if that is what you are using.) For example, some of the Arabic and Devangari fonts I've used have quite poor coverage of the Latin character space... To make that work, you usually need to specify a different font, depending on what characters you want to display in each widget. Remember that you can have multiple fonts in use in different widgets (e.g. by using the labelfont(...) or textfont(...) methods), so that works OK. The easiest solution might be to try the utf8 demo from the test folder of my fltk118 tarball, and use that to look at each of the fonts you have installed, until you find one that has the glyphs you need for your languages, in a style that you like! If you find that you do not have a font that meets your needs, I suggest you try going to: http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ There you will find much information on fonts, and also a tool "DownloadFonts.sh" that can get many different fonts for many different languages. Hopefully one of those will meet your needs. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
